The Longest... Weirdest Week of My Life...

last modified: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (6:15:45 AM CST)

Last Friday my family received news that my grandmother who was fighting terminal cancer was losing and it would be a matter of days before she died. She died on Sunday while I was at work some fate at work happened and I ended up being at the hospital before my family left. Long few days later the Wake came and went.. American Idol came a went with Amanda being voted off... then the funeral came and went. Finally it was the weekend where Anime Boston was happening. Half of me wasn't going to go but the other half of me needed the time off alone by myself. So I went. The convention sucked for various reasons... no I did not wait in a 5-8 hour line for registration like I heard about. I was in a 3 hour line which I've been in longer lines. Aside from that though everything else sucked. I wasted most of Saturday waiting in long lines and never getting the chance to see the Pillows... or get any autographs but I did end up going to Gregg Ayer's panel and while I was waiting in line I overheard the Pillows concert going on. They were good. I think I would've gotten a headache from the loudness though so I'm kinda glad I missed it. I lasted one hour at the dance on Saturday Night before I couldn't take the techno music anymore.

Anyway, I ended up buying some cels and fanart which I'm adding to my gallery throughout this week. I'm hoping things go back to their normal flows because I haven't been sleeping right for the past two weeks. My family has been deeply shaken and I am more stressed than relaxed from the Convention.

The Longest... Weirdest Week of My Life...

last modified: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (6:15:41 AM CST)

Last Friday my family received news that my grandmother who was fighting terminal cancer was losing and it would be a matter of days before she died. She died on Sunday while I was at work some fate at work happened and I ended up being at the hospital before my family left. Long few days later the Wake came and went.. American Idol came a went with Amanda being voted off... then the funeral came and went. Finally it was the weekend where Anime Boston was happening. Half of me wasn't going to go but the other half of me needed the time off alone by myself. So I went. The convention sucked for various reasons... no I did not wait in a 5-8 hour line for registration like I heard about. I was in a 3 hour line which I've been in longer lines. Aside from that though everything else sucked. I wasted most of Saturday waiting in long lines and never getting the chance to see the Pillows... or get any autographs but I did end up going to Gregg Ayer's panel and while I was waiting in line I overheard the Pillows concert going on. They were good. I think I would've gotten a headache from the loudness though so I'm kinda glad I missed it. I lasted one hour at the dance on Saturday Night before I couldn't take the techno music anymore.

Anyway, I ended up buying some cels and fanart which I'm adding to my gallery throughout this week. I'm hoping things go back to their normal flows because I haven't been sleeping right for the past two weeks. My family has been deeply shaken and I am more stressed than relaxed from the Convention.

The Longest... Weirdest Week of My Life...

last modified: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (6:15:25 AM CST)

Last Friday my family received news that my grandmother who was fighting terminal cancer was losing and it would be a matter of days before she died. She died on Sunday while I was at work some fate at work happened and I ended up being at the hospital before my family left. Long few days later the Wake came and went.. American Idol came a went with Amanda being voted off... then the funeral came and went. Finally it was the weekend where Anime Boston was happening. Half of me wasn't going to go but the other half of me needed the time off alone by myself. So I went. The convention sucked for various reasons... no I did not wait in a 5-8 hour line for registration like I heard about. I was in a 3 hour line which I've been in longer lines. Aside from that though everything else sucked. I wasted most of Saturday waiting in long lines and never getting the chance to see the Pillows... or get any autographs but I did end up going to Gregg Ayer's panel and while I was waiting in line I overheard the Pillows concert going on. They were good. I think I would've gotten a headache from the loudness though so I'm kinda glad I missed it. I lasted one hour at the dance on Saturday Night before I couldn't take the techno music anymore.

Anyway, I ended up buying some cels and fanart which I'm adding to my gallery throughout this week. I'm hoping things go back to their normal flows because I haven't been sleeping right for the past two weeks. My family has been deeply shaken and I am more stressed than relaxed from the Convention.

Of Course....

last modified: Saturday, November 03, 2007 (7:38:02 AM CST)

A LoN cel happens to show up not to soon after I change the graphics here back to my LoN theme. So naturally I think it's destiny and so I try bidding but holy hell SMJ wouldn't update my bid limit in time and even then I was far from winning. It really does suck especially the timing. For the past month my mother has been in the hospital following brain surgery then I get a terrible sinus infection and had to be out of work for two weeks. Currently I have to work overtime to try and make up for the money that has been lost. This was the one thing in the past month that made me happy thinking about and I couldn't even come close to having it. Man, I feel like fate is constantly against me it's gotten to the point where I wonder if.... *sigh* nevermind. I'm just majorly depressed right now. I'm going to sleep and have a bittersweet day off.

A little bit of this and that...

last modified: Thursday, August 09, 2007 (11:34:08 PM CST)

well with current bad status at home and at work I've decided I needed to do some things to cheer up. I hadn't collected cels in a long time so I really wanted to get add a little bit of something more to it. SO I got two Slayers cels because I really loved them and the total cost came to $30.00... not bad.

I'm going to Water Country on Saturday... I didn't really want to go on a busy weekend day like that but I don't have much of a choice since I PROMISED to take my little cousin there.

I'm hoping to take a little day trip to NYC at the end of September because I haven't done so in a LONG time. I'm also hoping that this time one or more of my friends/co-workers will go with me since touring NYC isn't as much fun without other people with you.

When Life is the Pits...

last modified: Saturday, June 30, 2007 (7:09:05 PM CST)

Like many other cel collectors I've had personal issues prevent me from collecting much these days. To start out with there have been severe medical issues with my mother especially her mouth. She had a seizure while getting a root canal and it took them 2 months to realize that happened. Two months of screaming pain that would sometimes cause her to pass out. So they gave her seizure medication and she still can barely eat. All the dental/doctor visits as well as previous finacial problems have added up and we can't afford to live in our house anymore. Working part time in retail offers very little help to them.

On another note, what little time I have had I have spent campaigning for one more shortened season of my favorite non-anime TV show "Gilmore Girls" at gilmoregirls.org we had been fighting to gain an eighth season to make up for the horrible season we had this year since Febuary. However, it was to no evail(sp?) but we haven't given up yet. Especially with the horrible final episodes of the series, we felt like we were jipped and we really need 8-11 more episodes to end things the right way. We're currently in the process of gaining signatures on an online petition and fundraising to send 7,000 hand-made daisies to the head of the CW network, Alexis and Lauren.

I know people have told us "it's over, move on" but at least we're TRYING to do something. If we didn't do anything at all then we definately won't make any progress. Some TV shows which were officially cancelled have been successful in gaining one more season (7th Heaven, Jerico, that show with Jim Belushi in it, etc) so there is hope. If you or anyone you know would like to help support the effort I have the links to them in my link section. Help me flip the bird at to "the man". On the bright side, out of all this I got an autograph from Alexis Bledel and a copy script from the show in my "Others" section.

Some AB goodies and SMJ shipped ones!

last modified: Monday, April 23, 2007 (10:02:35 PM CST)

I return from Anime Boston with goodies and also with some updates I had shipped from SMJ. From AB I have: two GORGEOUS Fruits Basket artwork in the FB section and three autographs in the ZAutographs section. From SMJ I have three Sailor Moon cel updates and one Kodocha cel of Sana! Yes I am starting a Kodocha cel section. I also have an original character artwork I had specifically made by an artist from the Artist Alley at AB and I will have that update once I finish adding little details. I will probably contact this artist and see if she will do more characters for my original fanfic. Okay more details later but for now I have to go to sleep.

Bday Chaos part 2....

last modified: Monday, January 01, 2007 (3:54:00 PM CST)

Sorry I didn't have enough space to make this all one blog.

The entire time I talked to the guy he was placating me because I'm a girl and I look young. It just got me more pissed off and so I yelled more insults at him and the company. One time I called him a dipstick... I thought the reference was fitting. At the end, I had to pay for the part that broke because it was on the list to eventually be fixed anyway but I didn't have to pay for the labor. I also found out what they REALLY fixed the other day which cost me so much. I said "Damn right I don't have to pay for the labor! If you guys knew what you were doing you would've been able to figure out that would've happened and fixed it before hand. Instead you let it slide and gave me a car with brakes that broke to drive! I'm very disappointed in this company! I came here with everyone telling me that they would rip me off but I ignored them. But everytime I come in, you guys add more parts and proceedurs that I don't need inorder to pass inspection! You guys keep trying to slide things passed me because I'm a girl and I don't know anything about cars but this time it could've cost me my life!".

Do you know what the guy replied with? "I know it must be hard for you being a WOMAN with a car..." that's when I cut him off because he said the word "woman" with such a condesending tone that it ticked both me off AND my sister. I interupted with "No, it's hard being someone who doesn't know anything about cars!!!" and he replaced the "woman" part with what I said in the meantime my sister threw him with a list of women who know cars including herself. Then as I go to a different register to pay for the part that broke the guy had the NERVE to say that he hoped that when I come back for the rest of the work they would treat me better. Both my sister and I were thinking: "Are you CRAZY! There's no way in HELL I'm coming back to you guys who keep ripping me off!". Which sucks because now I have to find another mechanic to fix my exhaust because I KNOW I can't pass the inspection with my car sounding like it's in a NASCAR race. By the way my sister gave me a round of a applause for the things I said to the guy, which I really appreciate coming from her.

*sigh* the only bright side of my day was receiveing a holday card from Zag(thank-you so much by the way) and being giving the chance to own a Mistress 9 cel that I love. God, I so hope that the new year is much better than the last one because of all the crap that everyone has gone through this year we deserve a good one!

Bday Chaos part 1...

last modified: Monday, January 01, 2007 (3:53:12 PM CST)

On my birthday I had $1,000 worth of work done to my car mainly the brakes. When I drove home I discovered I barely had any brakes at all. It took a couple of feet for the car to stop so I had to return it to them and yell at them for being idiots because I could've been in an accident! I also had to work for 7:30AM the next morning so with no car I had to turn to my grandmother. The next day my grandmother picked me up from work to tell me that the guys at Pepboys wanted to charge me for what they "fixed".

I was PISSED OFF. The more I thought of the $1,500 I had spent and reflecting on the things. I realized there were many things on the list they decided to add or fix which weren't urgent for me to pass inspection. That pissed me off even more. So that night when I went to pick up my car I went specifically to yell at them and come out not having to pay for work they should've done. I went with my sister and her ex-fiance who are experts with cars. Basically, they barely had to say anything at all because the whole time I was there I was firm and direct... I wouldn't let the guy push me around. I had it all set up in my mind what I would say and I actually said them. It turns out that the brakes weren't the only things they fixed the other day, they decided to replace major parts in the front of the car and because of all the work; this small part around the front brakes broke. The guy wanted to pin it on ME driving it "just so happened" after the mechanic "test-drove" it so the problem that occurred was an accident which I caused.

To prove that it was them who screwed up we went outside and the guy kept on talking trying to pin it all on me saying it was my fault for pressing on the brake so hard. I said to him: "Look at me! I barely weight 100 pounds in order for it to be that way I would've had to STAND on the brake petal and even then it wouldn't have done that. If the mechanic had test-drived it effeciantly enough then the part would've broke with him and he could've fixed it there!" boy was the guy quiet thinking about that for a while. My sister's ex-boyfriend went with him in the car while the guy drove it around the parking lot a few times and they had a long discussion back and forth. Finally the guy parks my car and gets out... leaving the headlights on! SO I shouted at him: "Hey, don't leave the lights on my car! I don't want the battery to go because of you!" he jumped right to it and ran back inside the shop so I could yell at him more.

Retail + Me Working= insanity

last modified: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 (5:27:32 AM CST)

That pretty much sums up my life right now. Even MORE stress because we have this new store manager who LOVES the control stick and makes my department of signing and markdowns, come in at 5:00AM some morning and leave at midnight on others. The other day I had a choice of EITHER having to work for 4 in the morning on Sunday OR come in for 10 on that Sat night and work until 4:00 since I HATE mornings I went with the latter and my sleep schedule has been screwed up ever since! I am so messed up that I JUST went X-mas shopping yesterday, I sleep in the afternoons, and I missed saying Happy birthday to Mirai Peorth who is a good friend of mine!

To make matters worse, I have to have about $1,500 worth of car service done in order for my car to pass state inspection since my birthday is on the 28th. I had to miss out on a Lina cel I really wanted and not being able to make offers on some Saiyuki sketches from Lizzie. I don't even have my X-mas tree up this year.

The only bright sides so far are; I won 2nd place in the Beta Awards for Most Femimine, I won a Chibi Chibi cel for a cheap price, I got a Gilmore Girls script, and knowing that there is only one more week of this crap left. Also, I got a present from MP (which I'm still working on yours MP I'm so behind!) and hopefully my friends will be taking me out for my birthday (it's a big deal to me because my birthdays are usually miserable). I hope everyone else has very happy holidays and may you have good vibes in the upcoming year!

Littl Bit O Updates...

last modified: Monday, November 06, 2006 (5:01:47 PM CST)

Hey, I updated some of my Slayers Next with some newer scans of cels. I also updated my photo section with a pic of me with my friends on Halloween and then a pic of me with my mom on Halloween.

Back on Track Again...

last modified: Saturday, October 21, 2006 (8:02:59 PM CST)

Okay, I finally got the whole blocked thing straightened out. Thanks to Klet and E for your support. I updated some-what with two new cels coming soon and an awesome pan sketch of Sanzo with the kitty in the Saiyuki Reload section.

On a good note totally non-related to cels but has to be mentioned... my sister finally moved out! I'm so jazzed! Now don't get me wrong, she IS my sister so I do have a strong connection to her BUT living under the same roof as her is like living with well if anyone has ever seen "Gilmore Girls"... my sister is exactly like Paris. That is enough to make me exhausted everyday. Now I don't have to put up with so much attitude before diner. No place like quiet home.

Thanks to kira, unicorngallery, sletia and klet again for your last comments. Tex Chan- thank-you so much! I wanted fall colors as a way to celebrate it! Now I have a halloweenish scary faces theme.

A Little Bit of Info...

last modified: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (6:58:16 PM CST)

I updated with a VERY small update consisting of a Mistress Nine cel and a Slayers cel that I finally got from SMJ. You might notice that a huge chunk of my gallery is missing, that's because I'm planning on taking offers soon and I didn't want to forget to hide the important peices. I have a major dental bill I have to pay. I will make announcements about that on Beta. What the heck is up with the Cels.org forum all there is are spam advertisement? Don't they have some sort of firewall or blocking system for it? That place was going downhill in the first place but now it's gone all the way down to Heck. My life has been very complicated lately so I haven't had time nor the money to persue cel collecting. I might not be in the right place to keep adding to my gallery for a long while. It sucks but if I keep things up I'll end up like my sister and that CAN'T happen! I hope that other collectors around are doing better than I am and I hope to try and visit their galleries once in a while.

Saiyuki Withdrawls and More Complications..

last modified: Thursday, June 15, 2006 (5:07:44 PM CST)

Ever since I came back from Anime Boston, I've had major Saiyuki withdrawl problems for three reasons. 1: All the Saiyuki goodies I bought at AB 2: there was a cosplay guy at AB who went as Sanzo with the robe down at the waist, wearing the black no-sleev shirt and I kinda went gaga for him and now I'm terribly attracted to Sanzo. It's a little embarrassing becuase I don't fall for Bishonen-looking characters easily except for Milgazia from Slayers, Saphire from Sailor Moon and a little bit of Sesshy from Inu Yasha. Well... I do have a thing for blonde haired blue eyed guys so it's not a shocker I guess. 3: the rain and everything happening here has put me in a bad mood.

Remember when I told you how the shelf broke off of the wall and left hole marks in my wall that started leaking? Well, the water from the wall spread onto the floor and on one complete side of my room. I live on the top floor, so in fear of everything crashing through the floor and landing on my dad in the middle of the night and becuase of the overpowering smell of musty mold, I have been sleeping in the Family Room couch. Great. I have been sleeping there for thr past 5 days and the inspector won't be here until Monday *cries* I HATE YOU Rain! Damn you! Go away and NEVER come back!!! Okay... I'm done now.

Oh yeah, by the way... I got into a shouting match with my so-called Supervisor. It was due. She was pissing all of us off and I was left all alone with her disappearing for hours instead of doing what she was supposed to and help me mark down clothes. I shouted, she shouted back, and I shouted LOUDER and then used tactics I use with my sister and took her down. It was fun. In the end, she did what I told her to and I felt GOOD! Brings me back to my early childhood with my sister... hehehe

I got so desperate for Saiyuki that I actually bought the last dvd of Reload and the first dvd of Gunlock. Which is unheard of for me becuase I HATE Reload's dubbed voices with a passion. Saiyuki isn't the same without Greg Ayres as Goku, Dave M. as Sanzo, Braden as Hakkai, Illich as Gojyo, Hillary Haag as Lirin, and Vic M. as Kougaji! The new dubbed people SUCK and the japanese voices have been tough to get used to especially Sanzo deep voice. Not only that but I found Relaod redundant and boring. I actually liked the ending of Reload becuase it comes from the last part of the original Saiyuki manga. I watched Gunlock and liked it right away becuase it follows the Reload manga and it's much more like the old Saiyuki. So now I can't wait to see the other volumes. I have some new Saiyuki sketches coming soon from the AM sale and a surprise Mistress Nine cel coming soon, too! So

Sorry about the bright colors but I wanted something bright and powerful like a summer's sun. Strong thanks goes out to all of the wonderful support from the great people here at RS! Especially purple-plum, Sletia, Tex-chan, Mirai Peorth and Kira!

One Thing Right After Another *sighs*...

last modified: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 (9:25:22 PM CST)

The first week of May I had major problems with work, the second week of May there was a HUGE flood in my town which included my neighborhood. I was forced to be evacuated and lived in the Red Roof in for almost a week. The river that was behind my house, my house was IN the river! The basement flooded sooo bad and most of the stuff that was nicely stored in storage bins tipped over and opened up spilling into the water. Holy Moses where was Noah when I needed him... on a cruise?!

Finally we were able to move back into the house of course we had to spend a week cleaning the basement out.

The next week was Anime Boston. Which was fun and relaxing but yet again I spent the majority of the time stuck in line waiting for autographs that I missed all the panels and activities I wanted to attend except for the FMA movie preveiw panel and the general VA panel! I was sooo upset that I missed the panel that tells you how to audition for VA work and info on it, etc! I REALLY wanted to attend that becuase I want to VA! However, I DID get a ton of autographs from Vic M., more autos from Greg Ayres and a TON of goodies from the Dealers Room so I guess it wasn't all bad! Vic is one of the nicest VA I have ever met he set up alot of spur of the moment autograph sessions of which I was the end of each line so the poor security people probably thought I was an obsessive groupie... I was NOT I just had good timing! However, I was hoping to run into Greg more often again and TRY to get to the dances but no luck there. Ah well, there's next year.

So onto last week. I left the Con on Sunday and worked Monday, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri... had Sat. off, worked Mon., Tues, and finally had today off and I am EXHAUSTED! We're having a MAJOR problem with one of our so-called "Supervisor" because she doesn't do the work she's supposed to and when she does she messes it up. So we have been going crazy trying to fix her mistakes and trying to get her either fired or switched to a different team... which we are REALLY getting close. AND Today I was sleeping at 12:30 AM 'cause it was my day off (felt damn good too) then I heard a peculiar ripping noise coming from one of my walls. I sit up and look just in time to see a shelf on the wall with porcelin dolls on it, rip out of the wall and come flying over a bureau under it (knocking some things off of it) and go crashing onto the floor! I screamed and my father and sister came running into my messy room. NOW there are holes in my wall that are leaking water from the outside rain! I HATE ran right now I really, really do! I'm already hating the Summer... I want it to skip it and go straight to Fall becuase of the events so far I'm fearing it'll be a Hell of a Summer!

I'm now completely broke from AB and missed one of my good friend's birthday AND my father's birthday. I updated my cel gallery here and updated the Album here too so check them out if you want to! If anyone out there sent a feedback or anything during the last couple of weeks I'll TRY to get back to you but my e-mails are so backed up that it might take a while. Gomen.

Slowly Getting Back On Track...

last modified: Friday, March 10, 2006 (9:42:30 PM CST)

Ouch with MAJOR money problems my second-to-last hope was a loan and the last resort was to sell most of my gallery. Luckily my past glorious credit history came shining through and once again I'm safe. However I receive a strange response as I was signing on the line of the contract. The credit report people wanted to know why I only took out the small loan that I did. Apparently I have a long line of credit and I only asked for what I was hoping would be good enough to get me back on track and have enough money to hold onto just in case something happens. So damn it I could've taken out a bigger loan and have extra money but I have always been one to only take what I need. I can barely stand the fact that I need a loan in the first place but this way I won't feel so guilty and I can work it out with my paychecks at work/ tax refund and wipe out most of my debts in a couple of months and completely by the time convention stuff starts happening.

As for cels I haven't had the money to do much. I had to force myself to miss Jenn B's mega sale and much more. One great thing that came out of it was I received a tip by a wonderful fellow RS collector about a Konzen repro cel for sale and I finally got it! It'll be here in about a week! YES! I'm SOOO happy and excited! I also managed to get through a payment plan cel from Mairsa and Casey of a Lina cel and that should be coming in at the same time! That's it for now and for a long time while I recover. Hopefully I can get back onto it around convention time to snag goodies there! *crosses fingers*

Merry Christmas to Me...

last modified: Monday, February 13, 2006 (5:28:23 PM CST)

Yeah I know about two months late but after the snow yesterday I got two rewards for fighting through the snow to get to work. The first I got to work overtime and I managed to get through all the snow. The second is that I had today off and perfect timing to catch the maillady with my SMJ shipment! Yay, so many goodies! Some cels, some backgrounds and a Slayers item that I am just in love with. It's a music box that plays the Slayers Next OP theme. It's so cute! So I've been so busy that I didn't have time to scan and upload the Saiyuki sketches. Sorry. I'll try to get those done some time this week.

Thanks to tex-chan, kira, Rayman, klet, ginga, WC, unicorngallery, setsumei, and pinkipromise for your kind words in the previous weblogs!

Blizzard Heading My Way... Darn it all!

last modified: Saturday, February 11, 2006 (8:25:36 PM CST)

Yup, a blizzard is barreling down to all New England and of course I have to work for 7:00 AM in the morning right when the storm is supposed to be at its worst! Figures, and I can't call out becuase my hours at work have been cut enough as it is that I can barely afford all the doctors bills. At this point I'll have to take out a loan or something to pay for everything. Anyways, good thing I live not too far from work so I should be able to make it.

I've been watching the Winter Olympics because there are alot of people from New England participating and I can see any event and not be bored. Heck my favs are the figure skating, louge and speed skating. Go USA! I've always wandered where you learn how to do the louge and stuff... at skiing places or what? I've REALLY gotten into that with the speed and quickness that I LOVE so I would love to know if there was a place to go just to try it out.

I've got more Saiyuki sketches to upload from Many moths ago. I had two Achika cels in my Coming Soon section that I had won from YJ that fell through so I was depressed and ended up getting an awesome Achika group cel that will be added soon so I'm happy about that. Also, my Azumanga section will be up soon they're mostly sketches of Maya though. Other than that I have nothing else coming or anything I can afford to purchase.

Being Sick SUCKS....

last modified: Sunday, January 29, 2006 (9:41:22 PM CST)

especially when you don't know what you have! For those who might not know I've been not feeling well for a couple of months now; being light-headed to points of nearly fainting, having major headaches, and having trouble breathing especially at night while trying to sleep. Many people have told me to get it checked out but I hadn't had health insurance EVER until this month so I wanted to wait for as long as I could so I could lower costs but eventually after one of the worst nights and waking up in hysterics so much that my sister who's room is right next door had heard me and I confessed EVERYTHING to her. More than things I have told other people so she finally convinced me to go the next day and she'd take me.

So I went to see the doctor, then she told me to get x-rays, then I had to get a blood test. Having to be forced to pay the co-payments for them on the spot. It's been almost a week since then and besides having stayed home from work and then overworking to make up for it I came home yesterday to see that they sent a cozy little note basically stating they still don't know what's wrong with me becuase nothing showed up in their tests, thanks for giving them money. That I'm just fatigue from lack of sleep. No kidding? REALLY? Lack of sleeping becuase I'm scared to go to sleep I could've told them that! I was hoping they showed SOMETHING. ANYTHING. Any kind of explaination for feeling like crap and them taking blood from me! I had a terrible and tramatic experiences with blood test when I was a kid so it was a big ordeal for me to face that crap and come out of it nearly passing out. Darn small town doctors! As you can tell I'm a little pissed off right now. Becuase I have a HUGE doctor's bill coming and if I want to have this looked at further I'll have to pay MORE money to get even more painful and emberrassing tests done which my hourse at work have been severaly cut so I'm not sure I can even pay the first bill.

Anyhow, I have Tuesday off and I plan to update my cel gallery then. I have some items I have had for MONTHS that I have promised to put up so I have got to do that now or I'll never get to do it. That will be my last update for a while except when I get my SMJ shipment in and add some of those. I need to save money for the doctor's bills, future dentist and car insurance bills and anime conventions so I hope there aren't any wishlist cels before then.

Thanks to; klet, GB, Blueaheavne, JWR, MP, and everyone else who have given me a lot of support through this very chaotic mess.

It feels like I'm Living in Alaska!!!

last modified: Sunday, January 15, 2006 (6:05:53 PM CST)

All through out last night I could hear the ice snow (hail? Sleet? Whatever the heck you call it) blow harshly against the window much like debris from a massive thunderstorm. This morning I had to go to work for 7:00 AM (on a Sunday... grr) and ended up being half an hour late. How you ask? My car was parked behind my grandmother's car (she lives with us) only I couldn't get to either car... why? Not becuase of snow... becuase of ICE compeletely covering both cars and making it impossible to open the doors to get in! I managed to get my car's door open in about ten minutes but I still couldn't get inside my grandmother's car to move it so that I can move my car, so that I can move hers back in the patking lot so that I could go to work! Finally 15 minutes later I had to crawl through the passanger door and drive her car with no vision through the windsheild whatsoever. Luckily it was friggn 7:00AM on a Sunday and people were sleeping. My car was free and I was on my way VERY slolwly becuase the roads were slushie ice mixes.

I make it to work and an hour later it starts snowing snow and frigid. I leave work to feel the bitter coldness bite right through my skin and to my bones. I had to brush my car off again and came home vowing not to go outside for the rest of the night! There's a horrid draft in my room due to my badly done window but yet the furnace keeps going and make me boil. Ever heard of nuking it? Luckily I have Saiyuki to keep me warm and sane.

Speaking of Saiyuki I have a couple of repros coming and I'll TRY AGAIN to attempt to scan a bunch of sketches that I got during the last couple of months. Also, I won my first Naruto repro from Mandarake! I'm so excited! It's one of both Naruto and Iruka-Sensei together! I just LOVE Iruka, especially when he's with Naruto... it's so very entertaining. Eventually I'll get more of the repros as months go along but I'm not in a hurry becuase I'm saving up for dentist appointments, cons, famring cels, restoring cels and Slayers cels have top priority over every other series IF I have spare money.

All Work and No Play...

last modified: Monday, January 09, 2006 (10:41:12 PM CST)

With the holidays over, I thought that my hours would be cut and that I would have more time to get things done around the house and catch up with my friends and websites but the new position I have at my job doesn't agree with me. See I work with signing and mark downing of clearance at a retail store and now that the holidays are over, most of the Winter stuff is going on clearance to make way for the spring stuff. I have more hours that most other employees at my store however, the money seems to be going straight to paying off bills and newly acquired insurance. Do you know that I have been going six years of working (5 at the same store) without gaining medical or detail insurance and my insuraces tied with my parents ended when I was a Junior in High School? Good thing I never really got sick or I would've been in REAL big trouble. However, it has played hell with my teeth and in three weeks two fillings have completely dissolved, and a damn tooth which I have been SURE to have a cativy since the last time I went to the dentist is causing me pain. I have to make an oppiotment but I never had insurnace stuff before so I'm afraid of screwing things up. But I have no choice When you can actually feel peices of food being jammed up cavities... it's not a pleasant exprience.

Ooh, yeah I purchased my first couple non-anime dvd sets. It's a television show that I watched when I was in the seventh grade and most of it had been recorded on many seperate tapes all over my room along with the old, first aired Sailor Moon dub episodes. The show was called; "Silk Stalkings" and I mean the ORIGINAL first one with Rita and Chris in it! Now, if you have seen this series you're probably sitting with wide eyes at the fact that a kid in seventh grade was watching this show. For those who aren't familiar with the show it's the late 80's early 90's version of CSI Miami and NYPD Blue mixed it with some edgy humor. It's about a male and female Homicide detectives who are partners that bust murder crime in racey situations. Now as a kid I managed to completely ingore all the racey stuff like it was nothing worth remembering, I was watching it for the suspense. They had THE best mysteries and cases, not only that but I learned alot of rules of solving tv/movie mysteries by watching it. If ever I watch a series or movie I can usually tell what's going to happen before it does becuase of what I observe and applied to what I learned from this show. Of course I wouldn't have even been interested in it in the first place if I didn't absolutely adore the lead female character Rita. She seems like your adverage female small, short and peitie kicking but and showing proof of female power. Her relationship with her partner is something that many people can relate too and there is so much chemistry and teamwork that they don't realize how close they really are to each other. I really like relationships like that and like Lina/Gourry ones. So the focus of the series is not so much aimed at the two main opposite sex characters getting hooked on each other, rather focuses on their everyday lives doing what they do and the important people in it that keeps them going.

Things at home have calmed down. I have some Saiyuki repro cels coming, some Saiyuki sketches that I have had for a month which I haven't had time to scan yet, and some things here/there that I'm waiting on. That's it on my end. Thanks to maiko, klet, Leah, WC, sletia, zerospace, Tex-Chan and MP for your support from the last couple weblogs it really helped to calm me down alot.

Bad Icing on My Non-existant Cake...

last modified: Sunday, January 01, 2006 (12:24:41 AM CST)

Oh goody starting off the New Year on a bad note. Not too good. I just learned a couple of days ago that my sister and mother got in a HUGE fight on my birthday over guess who... me, that's right and now they're not talking to each other.

Basically what happened is that as usual my sister Jennifer was mouthing off about me becuase I came home from my birthday night in a bad mood while she (and her friend moreso) were actual cleaning. Now that was something that struck me as wrong right off the bat. Tidy is the opposite word I would use to describe what she is. So for her to be so-called cleaning means that she was raving about something and got into cleaning to get her frustations out on something. However, when I came in her friend was on her hands and knees cleaning yet Jen was just walking around. Anyway, so after my appearance and even quicker disappearance, I guess she went to my mother to complain about me and try to make me look really bad. Unfortunately, my mother has been um, snippy and defensive lately so she jumped to my defense and things went downhill from there. So a couple days later my mother tells me this and comments how everybody is on my side...except me.

I'm used to my sister acting like this by now. She has this way of looking down on people and thinking that nothing is her fault but someone elses. However, we have a mutual line of jealousy/respect that if crossed will destroy out household. Yes, I'd be the first to admit I'm not very tidy either and I do make messes too but eventually I'll clean them but I'm not one to say well SHE did something messy too. At this point I just shut my mouth and walk away. As the older sister, it's my job to be on her side. The way that this arguement developed has lead to a bad feeling. You see Jennifer is MUCH bigger and stronger than me, so is her boyfriend and they have cel phones. So if Mom should happen to fall and not be able to get up or is stuck somewhere Jen is the first person she calls and besides my dad is the only one who can help her. I'm afraid that if this keeps up and mom needs her help, that she's going to say no. I hope that my mother can get over this enough to realize that there will never be an apology from Jen and if what I fears happens she'll be regretting not saying sorry to her. Sometimes the strongest person is the one to first let go. Sigh, what to do.

Birthday Bah Humbung...

last modified: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 (10:39:28 PM CST)

That's how I've felt in the past five years becuase having a birthday right after x-mas and right before New Years is pretty nonexistant unless I have parties or something before or after all of that. The only party I ever had on my birthday that was worth while was my 18th one where ALL of my relatives came and friends.

Today was another one of those. I went to the movies/ dinner with my friends. There was a mix up and I didn't get to leave the house until 3:30 PM. We watched the movie Narnia at the theaters... I remembered why I didn't like the books and why I hate movie adaptation of books. When we went to dinner we had to wait half and hour to get in and the food was WAY too salty/spicey that I swore my tounge and lips were on fire. I ended up accidently offending one of my friends. Her sister was just in a bad car accident, she came out fine but one of her friends didn't. I was driving and absent-mindedly teased about going straight through a red light and she started crying. So I felt bad and combined with my issues against my birthdays I hit a depressed and cranky mood for the rest of the night. I'm feeling a little better now that I've been online and that my little cousin gave me a hand-made present.

There are some things on the Mandarake BA that I'm watching but I probably won't go for them becuase I don't have the money. I'm going to keep the cels I wasn't sure about showing but I'll sell others instead. For some reason I missed the 10cent sale event on Ebay which I really could've used. So if anyone knows when the next one happens, I would appreciate it if you'd let me know. Thanks!

Merry X-mas to Those Who Celebrate it!...

last modified: Sunday, December 25, 2005 (1:21:46 PM CST)

I hope you have a wonderful x-mas full of fun, family and presents. For those who don't celebrate Xmas I hope you have a very Happy Holidays and enjoy this day off of work/ school.

For me, I'm not intending to go to my grandmother's house like I do every chirstmas. First, my mother can't go with us becuase of my Grammy's stairs and I don't like the idea of her sitting alone on Xmas miserable becuase she doesn't even have her dog with her, Second; I don't like going to my grnadmother's house anymore becuase I'm basically alone when I get there becuase there's no one my age except my sister and she always has a boyfriend with her, and third; I have to work for 6:30 AM tomorrow and if I go to Grammy's house, I won't be back until 10:00PM and won't have enough time to eat, make a washing and settle into bed. So I'm just going to stay here for the day. It's like a day off but with everyone home and presents.

Heck, I was almost working on my birthday. They scheduled me to work on my birthday (Wed.) AND on New Years weekend... how the heck was I supposed to celebrate my birthday/ when my mother's side of the family comes over for christmas gift exchanging? So Luckily my new manager happens to be someone I worked with for five years and when I told her it was my birthday she quickly switched it with Tuesday.

See ya Next year!

Yay Packages in the Mail Today!

last modified: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 (9:21:35 PM CST)

Yes, today I received three packages in the mail today. One was the AM package with some Saiyuki sketches, one was a backgroud set I won off of Celga and the last was a package sent by evilminion with Saiyuki sketch presents in it! SHe's the best! I think that means that Sletia will finally be receiving her Hellmaster cel. Yay, I'm a happy Neko =^;^= I'll try to find time on Friday to get the Saiyuki sketches up. I did however have time to scan the backgrounds with the cels. I won this set specifically for a background I really needed. It was one to go with the cel of Gourry reaching up to the LoN as she floats away and I wanted only the perfect background for it. Other than seeing exact ones but with cels from $60-110 I had to wait patiently becuase I want to frame it and mount it on my wall. So I'm very happy I found one! Not to mention it came with two other backgrounds that I easily found cels to put them with.

I did receive another cel I'm undecided on wether or not to keep it or sell it. I did hide it on my gallery incase I decided to keep it.

Thanks to Leah, klet, kira, ginga, WC, hitokiri, backlot, and Moonrabbit for feedback on previous blogs!

My Birthday Tomorrow... er, a week

last modified: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 (9:36:44 PM CST)

Ah yes, the story of my life. Late. Always late. I was supposed to be born on Decemeber 21st. Then it came and went... so I was supposed to be born on Christmas Day... everyone stared at my mom's stomach like she was going to all of a sudden explode. However, nothing happened except for gas. Finally, 7 days after I was supposed to be born I was, and it has screwed with my life ever since.

See, becuase of it my Horoscope and being only three days before the next year, it also messed up my Zodiac. I was SUPPOSED to be a Sag. my favorite planet has ALWAYS been Jupiter which is a Sag's planet and what a Sag is discribed as applies to me almost perfectly. But no, I was born as a Capricorn and nothing personality-wise nor foretelling of a Cap works with me (except for not being a morning person) I kinda make up my own Horoscope by combining Sag., Cap. and the following sign Aquarius that seems to work. Still, becuase of this little mix up nothing time-wise is straight. No matter how early or well I plan things, events always happen which causes me to be late. I'm always running around and being a procastinator just adds more stress to it. By the time I have well... time to relax, I'm exhausted and out of energy.

On a different note, my hourse have been cut at work lately yet when I DO work, it's a 10 hour shift... when I'm NOT working I'm taking my mother out to shop 4 x-mas stuff. I've had no time to do shopping on my own so I have had all my present ideas come to me through tv and I know exactly what to look for in stores.

My cousin and good friend Karen, has loved anime longer than I have and Slayers being one of her favorites. She was the one that was trying unsuccessfully to get me into it. Well, she had been drooling over my Slayers cels lately and finally asked me to tell her where and how I got mine. I warned her what happened with my other friend Kristen and she assured me that she wouldn't feel right doing anything but bidding by herself. Low and behold, I get a x-mas/birthday present shipped to me by Mandarake... in it is a Slayers cel! She won it and bought it for me... sneaky devil! I remember seeing it recently and wishing I could bid on it, too! I'm very happy!

Snow... GRRRR!!!

last modified: Saturday, December 10, 2005 (1:46:31 AM CST)

When you're a kid snow is GREAT! Usually no school, you throw your snowsuit and coat on, go outside and have a blast by throwing snowballs at your sister and making snow angels.

When you get older, snow SUCKS. Snow just about equals one thing only; shoveling. Yes, nothing like having to wake up even earlier than you usually do in the morning for work just to break your back shoveling and being exhausted even before you get to work. Not to mention the tretcherous ride from home to work, then dealing with the same things in vise versa. Of course a snowstorm is also a calling for idiots and impatient jerks to come out into the malls to shop. Yup, nothing like risking your children's lives on a trip during a snowstorm just to go shopping and hope to avoid the crowds! You wanna avoid crowds at the mall? Go on a Thursday! ARGGhhhh!!! *rants* Okay, sorry I'm better now.

Actually not really. For about two weeks now I've been having health problems must recently and annoyingly I threw my back out somehow last week and it hurts even more now. Just imagine shoveling with that. Not fun. You see about oh four years ago I slipped on some ice on the sidewalk of my house and fell right on my lower back. Ever since then, I sometimes get twinges of pain... but NOTHING like this. What's worse is that I have no health insurance. To be honest I never really had insurance since I was 16 becuase of idiots in the insurance company. So I can't get it checked out until my job's health insurance activates in Jan. Goody... a month to go of this. Lovely. Sorry, for ranting but I'm tired, stressed and in pain.

Working Retail and Looking for Dog...

last modified: Saturday, December 03, 2005 (9:56:40 PM CST)

that's why I haven't been around the net alot lately. Working retail during the holiday season zaps alot of time, energy and patience out of you. When I HAVE had a day off, it's been spent going to animal shelters with my mother looking for a new dog.

Unfortunately now I found a dog that I fell in love with. It was at the MSCPA and oddly enough has the same last night as my childhood friend. He's a Chiwawa (sp?) but looks more like a smaller version of a Jack Rusell Terrier. He is 10 years old and the poor thing was just adopted in Septmember and then his new owner went into the hospital forcing him to go right back into the shelter! I'm not a dog person, I'm a cat person but even I liked this dog. He let me pat him and scratch him, without licking me to death like dogs usually do which I appreciated. The fact that he was already 10 years old kinda disappointed me and as the volunteer read his medical history I was even more upset. He has liver damage... and while I was patting him under his neck I felt a lump which she felt as well. Damn it all... the poor thing. He'll probably sit in the shelter until somebody puts him to sleep becuase nobody would want to adopt him... not even my mother did. Me on the other hand, I am VERY tempted to ask mom to let me adopt him and be his caretaker so that he can have a loving home to live the rest of his life in... as short a time as he has left. It would mean alot of time and money though and I'm not sure mom would go for it.

Cels and Sketches All Around...

last modified: Monday, November 28, 2005 (8:04:37 PM CST)

becuase of the holiday season alot of really nice cels have been appearing and there has been alot of sales lately. Luckily for me and my cel diet I've passed alot of it up. Asylum just updated with new cels and I didn't buy anything. AM now has a sale on for most of their stuff... I got three sketches all under $10.00 and I've been passing up alot of cels/sketches on Ebay and YJ. Except I kinda saw a cel on Ebay that struck me and since it wasn't too expensive I said oh what the heck why not? Hopefully I'll win it for the first bid. Hey that's much better than what I normally would do under the circumstances. I usually easily rack up atleast $200.00 at AM sales so I'm really happy that my desperation prevented that this time.

On another note the wackiness of working in retail during the holiday season is preventing me from being online alot so I barely have any time to answer e-mails and search around the cel community so I haven't been able to keep track of people's cel updates and weblogs which I apologize for and will hopefully get back to those once the holiday season is over. Thanks to WC, Leah, klet, Tex-chan, Blackmegabyte, purple-plum, Cutiebunny and Kira for previous weblog feedbacks!

Twilight Zone Thanksgiving...

last modified: Thursday, November 24, 2005 (10:28:36 PM CST)

What would be the weirdest thing happen to follow a thanksgiving meal? 1) Your Unlce Joe falls asleep in his bowl of mashed potatoes, 2) Your little cousins get into a food fight; flinging jello which sticks to the cealing and falls on your Aunt's head, or 3) A herd of 15 wild turkeys show up and ravage your aunt's backyard? If you picked 3 that was mine. Seriously, I'm not kidding. Right outside the window was a herd/ flock whatever of wild turkeys pecking and stripping things off in the snow. If you think the whole Thanksgiving Day thing never happened... there's your proof.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all... I hope you had a good time with your families and friends!

Moving On Being Strong..

last modified: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 (11:56:54 PM CST)

Things have finally started to settle down at home and in my life. My mother is practically drooling over every dog she sees saying; "I want that one" or "If I COULD I would have that one..." while I'm still stuck on the last dog. She gets depressed over not having a buddy around the house so we have to get another dog soon. Currently her eyes are on a long, haired Daushound that's speckled-colored and cute as a button but she doesn't understand how small they are and it's kind of dangerous to have around here. There are ALOT of animals around that could eat a dog that small not to mention she wouldn't be able to feed the dog scraps like the older medium-sized dog we had and with her electric wheelchair there's a chance of a run-over if you catch my drift ^-^' However, a dauschound is one of the very few dogs that even I like and I'm a cat person. So we'll see.

I've been good with cels n stuff. I updated with some Saiyuki Movie sketches I won JUST before the whole announcement and dog thing. It took me a little while longer than usual to pay them off but Mandarake was surpising supportive as I had purchased from them before and paid off auctions within 3 days so they were patient and understanding. I still need some backgrounds though especially a vertical pan background of either a night sky with stars or a darker brown boulder-type. So I've got a mission on those if anyone has seen anything like that.

Thank-you so much to everyone for your wonderful support and encouragements during my rough week. Espcially; MP, Tex-Chan, HotIce, Blackmegabyte, purple-plum, Cutiebunny, WC, Leah, Leedz, klet Backlot, Shampy, kira and Sletia!

One of the Worse Nights EVER...

last modified: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 (2:01:46 PM CST)

No only did I finally tell off my friend, breaking ties with her and being forced to keep her cels but the family dog died last night at 1:30 AM. It wasn't a slow peaceful death, one where he was in pain until the last few minutes. He hadn't been eating lately and all that he had managed to eat was his snacks given to him after he goes out. The entire day he wouldn't leave my mother's side and then when my dad came home he wouldn't leave his side. Then I was going to get a drink and the dog was pacing to go out so as usual I groaned a "darn you stupid dog" and let him out. I swore that I wasn't going to give him a snack but when he came back he was so happy and I caved... that proved to be one of the worse mistakes in my life. I went onto the computer in my mother's bedroom while she was watching tv and the dog was getting settled into his bed. All of a sudden he fell over like a horse onto his bed and from then on, it was a battle of pain and misery until the last few moments when he slipped away and I had to get everyone together into the room. Mom of course had her heart broken and cried uncontrollably. I kept it together until she and I were alone as dad and my sister took him to the animal hospital. That's when I admitted to mom about the guilt I felt for killing him. If I had not given him that snack he would've been alive until morning when they would've taken him to the vet. Of course everyone keeps telling me it's not true but it's not easy to just nod, forget everything you're feeling and move on. I can't get the guilt out. So now I REALLY have to stay away from cel collecting for a long while. I have some payment plans that I will finish as promised and I need some backgrounds but other than that I can't.

Ooh Situation with Friend Gets Worse...

last modified: Monday, November 14, 2005 (7:02:51 PM CST)

Yeah so she's been avoiding me and not talking to me lately. Everytime I call her she's mysterously "not home" when she usually is when I call (though I can hear her voice in the background of the phone when I speak to her mother) and she's sent my e-mails to the "Junk". So I JUST e-mailed her with my brand-new e-mail address with my "Can't miss who it's from" screen name and she hasn't replied. I do nice things and go out of my way to help a friend and when I demand a little bit of respect I get a door slammed in my face! So that means I'm down to three friends right now. In all fairness I added "her" cels to my Coming Soon section so that when I receive them, I can scan them and say to her; if you want these you're gonna have to pay for them and extra money for my services. If she continues to ignore me then that's it! I've had it! I'm keeping them and not talking to her again! I SO don't need this stress in my life right now!

Anyway thanks to Leah for giving my Rem cels a nice, new home! Thanks to tex-chan, klet and WC. Cutiebunny- that person you described sounds EXACTLY like my sister. That's why I will NEVER lend her money or anything because I won't be getting it back and she'll spend HUNDREDS of dollars on some expensive item. You know that friend I mentioned knew my sister first in High School, so I'm starting to see where things are tied in.

Slowly Getting Better...

last modified: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 (9:47:10 PM CST)

Okay, so thanks so much to JWR, MDKiller1 and another RS member I now have one cel that was sold and two others on hold waiting for the Money Orders... all right! You guys have no idea how much I appreciate this all though it's REALLY hard to part with those cels! Now if I can only sell oh everything in the Rubberslug shop and the sets that are still available I'll be all set... wow, um that's alot to ask, huh? Oh well, a girl can dream, can't she? I WAS considering selling some things on Ebay for that 10 cent selling fee thing but... I REALLY don't have the ambition to go through with all that yet so I might wait until a little longer or just sell the Rem cels on it. I dunno, we'll see what I have time for and what will happen.

I finally got my AM Saiyuki sketches in... it took 2 weeks! I was getting a little antzy there for a bit. Anyway, I'm so happy with them especially the sketch set of the Kitty leaping into Sanzo's arms and the one of Sanzo smoking and sneezing... not only are they better in person but there's like 10 layers for them not including the Timing Sheets.

I'm so behind on Beta with seeing other member's updates and RS member Weblogs that I feel REALLY BAD about it but I just haven't had the time lately, the past three weeks have been especially busy. SO I hope to get through some of those on Sunday.

Oh yeah about my friend, I warned her that if she doesn't get her act together then I'm going to keep the Lina pan cel for myself since it was purchased under my account, I paid it in full, and it has to be shipped to my house. She didn't like that idea too much I'm sad to say; she seemed relunctant to get her own YJ bidding service account and she doesn't want to pay the extra fee I'm asking for. So I dunno what's going to happen with that.

Thanks to tex-chan, Cutiebunny, WC, and klet for giving me some wonderful comments in the last weblog that certainly encouraged me!

Co-Owning and an Overly Eager Friend...

last modified: Monday, November 07, 2005 (5:43:53 PM CST)

So ontop of still not feeling good, out of money and my sales not going good either now I have this little BIG problem to deal with. Okay, my friend Kristen of whom I've known since High School and loves the same kinds of anime as I do, has recently gotten into cel collecting. Since she doesn't have a YJ bidding service account yet I've been doing the bidding for her..then the auctions go over her max bid and of course I volunteer to chip in becuase not only am I a SAP but I also want the same cel as well. This was fine at first with the first auction but now a second one has occured and I fear her eyes are on another one so I finally had to tell her to please either get her own SMJ or Rinkya Account or pay me extra for getting involved with them. So she relunctantly agreed to go with a service or don't bid at all. So now I have a $250.00 YJ bill to someohow cover until she pays me. OUCH! Why me?

Thanks to; kira, WC, tex-chan, Leedz and Miss Z for your advices and encouragements. I'll probably end up putting the items on the RS SHop for a while until around x-mas and then repost about selling them or put them on EBAY. To klet;don't feel bad, it's okay, really.. I hardly think it would've made much of a dent in things anyway and it's not going anywhere. ^-^

Sale Not Going So Good...

last modified: Sunday, November 06, 2005 (7:24:58 PM CST)

Yeah, I'm in trouble! I only have one sale so far that has panned out everything else is a; "maybe when I have money" or when I mention prices and shipping charges they don't go through. I can't afford to ship to everyone's houses I'm sorry. If things keep up like this I'll have to force myself to turn to Ebay which everytime I sell things from there a problem ALWAYS happens so I would like to avoid it. I was mostly relying on selling the Rem cel set at least. Not only that but everyone else seems to be selling stuff, too so I feel like I'm out of luck! This SUCKS!

Sale Announced...

last modified: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 (9:10:58 PM CST)

I'm selling alot of items to try and pay off some payment plans and x-mas presents. Please check out the below link for details if you're interested! http://www.anime-beta.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=15591 Basically it explains that I'm accepting offers on anything in my Offer/Trade section. The Rem cels, Fruits Basket Set, and Saiyuki Sketch sets are being sold in groups. If you want to make offers or want to know about prices please ask me. I'm willing to take a month payment plan for the Rem group. Also, if there's anything labelled NFS that interests you, I'll listen to offers.

As for the previous weblog thanks goes out to; WC, klet, Leah, tex-chan and MP! Sletia; relax girl I'm not angry at all! I was frustrated with that situtation too so I don't blame you.

I Have a Confession to make...

last modified: Monday, October 31, 2005 (10:06:48 PM CST)

I love blonde guys in anime... there I said it! Happy now? Did you notice a theme that almost every guy in my gallery has blonde hair except for Sesshy all though some people COULD call that WAY platinum blonde. Why do I say this? Becuase I have two of my favorite particular blonde anime guys coming my way soon! Not to mention the offers I got from Anime Jewell also intitles blonde guys. The only non-blond guys I have in my gallery are Van and Phibby. Phibby just wouldn't look evil with blond hair... that just would be creepy! Allen from Escaflowne has blond hair and I like him but I kinda don't like the flirting thing he has a problem with... so I'm a little bit more of a Van person. I'm a HUGE Gohan fan.. wait his hair TURNS blonde so that counts, right?

Why do I have a thing for blonde guys in anime you might ask, simple; I have a childhood guy friend of whom I absolutely adored when I was little and I see alot of him in these characters. He's just one of those all around really generally nice guys that cares about people and is super intelligent but also has a sense of humor and can be goofy sometimes. I really appreciate those kinds of traits in people and it's rare to find guys like that where I live. Maybe I'm reflecting on this tonight becuase there's a five year class reunion mentioned to me by a classmate that might be coming up in November and as soon as she said that I started thinking of him. Though the Kitsumi in my life always manages to sneak his way into my head once in a while... not to mention my life as well. Thanks to tex-chan, kira, WC and klet for your kind words in my last weblog!

Okay... Final Round!

last modified: Friday, October 28, 2005 (10:54:28 PM CST)

Got the Saiyuki sketches up in the Coming Soon section I'll try to get more scans and give them more accurate screencaps. I've got some cels in the works for the upcoming month or so but that's going to be it for a while for me; I can't spread myself this thin for too long before I break. There's the holiday shopping season, car repairs and Anime Conventions to save up for so unless there's a MAJOR wishlist cel I'll have to stop myself from going for cels after next month. That's okay, for the AWESOME things that I've acquired within the past two months I wouldn't trade any of them for anything! Especially my Achika cels and my newest Slayers cels!

Thank-you so much to; WC,kira, SME, tex-chan, Leedz, sletia, and Ronin for your kind comments about my update! You're all so kind! I'll keep that in mind Leah and thanks for your comments as well. Klet- that Prophecy of Death episode is my FAVORITE one in Escaflowne and the second I saw that cel I had a feeling that's where it was from but I didn't know for sure. It's around the scene where... oh yeah no spoilers here. Now that you helped to confirm this I'm REALLY happy to welcome him to my cel home!

Updated ALOT of Cels!

last modified: Thursday, October 27, 2005 (10:22:05 PM CST)

Boy am I exhausted from Updating my gallery so much! I switched around some sections and I added some new ones. I have just about finished all of my updates except for in Saiyuki which I'll update something tomorrow and will have some in the Coming Soon section. As for what I updated over the past couple of days; Inu Yasha, all of the Slayers categories, Saiyuki, Escaflowne and Tenchi Muyo the Movie! I have got to say that this has been one of my favorite updates so far since joining Rubberslug!

On the downside all of this updating means I'll have to sell some of my cels to compensate for the money loss and trying not to get me into serious financial trouble. I'll probably do that around the weekend or next Wed. So until then I have things under the Offer/Trade section that will be up. I'm planning on a couple of "sets" like all of my FB will be one, two Saiyuki sketches will be another one and to try and avoid having to part with the Rose Petal Rem I'm going to try and sell a bunch of Rem ones together. If that doesn't work then I'll have no choice. Also, if anything NFS or not labelled interests you don't be afraid to send an offer the worse I can say in "no, thank-you" ANFS items are off limits!

Anyways, thanks to Cutiebunny and Tex-chan for your comments. I think I'll try and see what happens with the method you used klet becuase I've always been a little aprehensive about putting cels in the freezer...

Finally got my SMJ Shipment in Today...

last modified: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 (10:16:35 PM CST)

and BOY do I have ALOT! I had forgotten about some auctions I won and I also won alot of cel sets so I'll be slowly adding updates within a couple of days. I did receive a BIG surprise I wasn't expecting! I had won a set of Lina cels on YJ and received them to find a third cel a big, ugly scary evil character cel... ooh. Yup, I'm NOT gonna tell ya, you'll just have to see for yourselves!

For the most part I am so happy to see these cels in person and most of them are what I was expecting and more, except for one. Before I start explaining let me tell you that by exprience do NOT under any circumstances put wax paper in between a cel and sketch that are stuck together! I don't care what cel expert may say about it, don't do it! You have to understand what'll happen! Wax paper melts into paint when it gets heated and if you remove them wrong all the paint from the cel can be ripped right off the cel. If you have that kind of situation where the cel and sketch are sticking together either leave them alone, use one of those removal methods or cut a cel bag in half and place one of the halves in between the two. Don't use wax paper or any other paper for that matter EVER. Or what happened to my cel of Makoto Kino fighting Zoisite will happen to you. If you do find yourself with a cel like that you have to be EXTREMELY careful when removing the wax paper. I was lucky to have the patience to carefully remove most of it but parts of the paper are now permenately melted into the paint and if I remove them, I'll remove the paint. I will be carefully working on it to get more of it off to show and I might see if I can use that freezing method to do it. Thanks to Cutiebunny, tex-chan and klet for respongding to the last weblog!

Anime Shopping Day at the Mall...

last modified: Sunday, October 23, 2005 (1:25:26 AM CST)

Today was a BIG anime shopping day for me! It DEFINATELY cheered me up! First I won that Van cel from Mandarake's Big Auction that I was in love with and enough under my max bid that there's hope that maybe the other auctions/ items won't hurt my bank account as much as it could... somehow though I doubt that ^-^' I know what you're thinking; "Uh oh, she's starting ANOTHER new series to collect from?!" Hey, I've been into Escaflowne ever since I witnessed the distaster that was the English aired edited/dubbed version and was curious to see how it was in the Japanese version so I bought the tapes in those bulky white video cases. I purchased the first three dvds of it but lost interest in purchasing more since other newer animes where coming out. I wanted to start collecting cels from it since I saw the awesome ones that alot of other cel collectors have in their galleries and ones that I saw on Anime Link. I'm only really looking for cels either from the OP or from "The Death" episode of which really got me into Escaflowne. Then again just falling in love with one like the Van cel I won is likely to happen and I'll accept that ^-^

Ah, anyway so I went to the mall a couple of miles away and went anime shopping. I had certificates galore to use for Best Buy and Suncoast so I bought; Saiyuki Reload vol.2, and RRK mangas vol 18 & 19 (Enishi arcs). I went to a video game store which had a sale of used dvds; buy two get one free so first I finished purchasing my first season Saiyuki dvds ($9.99 each no taxes thanks to NH!) and got an Escalfowne dvd for free ($5.99 with no taxes)... then I couldn't resist going back for a second round and finishing off buying the dvds of Escaflowne which equaled to twenty for the first purchases and ten dollars for the second purchase= $30.00 all together! Just as much as I would have spent on just one not used anime dvd at the retail stores! What a bargain shopper I am! I'm so proud and I didn't even have to put everything on credit!

Update on the Internet Complications

last modified: Sunday, October 23, 2005 (1:24:51 AM CST)

Thanks to; SME, tex-chan, klet, and Kira for your support and sending good vibes to me! I really needed it! To Blueheaven; I haven't had a chance to reply at Beta about it but I did read the post and I just wanted to let you know that you are good at making points and sticking to your opinions. I wasn't really hurt by anything you or IGWT said but how the entire post kept on rolling into uncomfortable situations in general. I can get sensitive and am quick to feel guilty of things apologizing like crazy. Just one of those Tohru Honda emotions I have so well ^-^'

Why I hate the Internet and Forums Sometimes...

last modified: Friday, October 21, 2005 (6:57:08 PM CST)

Everytime I start a post in Beta for some reason things start going the wrong way. I'll say something and think it sounds good and makes a point to me but other people takes things out of context and make them sound another way. It reminds me again why I hate the internet sometimes. A friend of mine sent an e-mail to me about a month ago and it got to me really bad because she had a problem with me and couldn't say so to my face. A lame e-mail where you can't tell how the other person feels directly without having to guess from the e-mail is a quick way of pissing me off. I'd rather get a phone call from that person and talk to them so that we can talk honestly and clearly in a way that both of us can understand how each other is feeling. These kinds of things is why I tend to float in and out of Anime Beta and other websites/ forums. I just asked a simple question and it turned into a big controversy... makes me feel really hurt and cautious about expressing myself on internet.

To cheer me up a little bit I did receive that OP Sanzo sketch that Tex-chan was so kind enough in letting me purchase a layer and I did receive the Saiyuki sketches from Ebay too. Hopefully I'll win some auctions I'm currently on or have offers go through to cheer me up a little bit more. Thanks to tex-chan, klet and Ronin for their kind comments about the previous weblog!

Received and Won Saiyuki Today!

last modified: Saturday, October 15, 2005 (6:15:35 PM CST)

I was starting to head to my room to each lunch today when the doorbell rang and there was my package of Saiyuki sketches that I got from Titiana's open gallery! I was sooo happy and boy she wasn't kidding about that Sanzo pointing his gun at the fake Goku sketch being GIGANTIC! I had the hardest time getting it all together and accidently ripped a little bit when I tried to get it out of the packing... D'oh! >< It's not too bad and you can hardly tell so that's a relief... I just LOVE it! I especially love the Sanzo sketch of it.

Of course what I'm excited most about what I got from her is the sketch of Konzen beating up on Young Goku when they first meet! I just LOVE that scene and Konzen is my #1 favorite character in the series! So keep your eyes open for more Konzen goodies in the future! I added them to the Saiyuki section

I also won a sketch from Ebay of one of my favorite episodes and scenes! It's in my Coming Soon section so take a peak!

Oh and of course tex-chan is one of the nicest and most generous people out there! It's TRUE I'm really serious! She's letting me adopt one layer of her new Sanzo OP sketches! I can't WAIT! I've always wanted an OP something or other that I liked and I LOVE that scene! Thanks to her for her support in everything thaat's been going on with me, too! Take a bow Tex-chan you deserve it!

Long Week Finally Comes to an End!

last modified: Saturday, October 15, 2005 (9:06:39 AM CST)

Yes, this week and last week will probably go down as the worse weeks this year so far for me and I get the feeling I'm not the only one! My mother is doing better all though her two toes that are broken are BLACK and Blue, mostly black not a good sign if you ask me but after endless amounts of nagging by me and the rest of the family; it's her decision not to go not mine. She's one stubborn lady I'll say that for her! it has kept her going for all of those years so I can't say anything bad about that.

I've been sick or sleeping off and on this week. I won something on Ebay which I added to my Coming Soon section and I decided to go for some auctions in Mandarake's Big auction afterall! I also made a discovery on Anime Museum so my money will once again be eaten by Steven in a couple of weeks *munching sounds* *Burping sound*

A special thanks goes out to; tex-chan, klet, magiktori, Leedz, MP,and kira for cheering me up this week!

Not a Good Sign When There's an Ambulance in Your Front Yard...

last modified: Monday, October 10, 2005 (11:07:51 PM CST)

I'm surpised I didn't come across to this when I came home from work and the Post Office today. You know how when you sometimes enter a house or a room and get a bad feeling that something just happened and you probably should turn around and go away? For me usually there are sings of this; 1) an ambulance on our front lawn 2) My grandmother cleans the house from top to bottom. I came home to scenerio #2. I'm like; "Uh, oh what happened now?" My grandmother;>"Oh she's off the floor now but is in lot of pain"... so nonchalantly like I just asked her what time it was. I of course reacted like this; "WHAAATT?! What's THAT supposed to mean?! What happened?" My grandmother; "Oh, she just slipped off her bed and onto the floor.. nealry broke her legs under the bed when your sister's boyfriend tried to get her up. FINALLY your father showed up and he and your sister's fiance were able to get her off the floor," Again nonchalantly.

I came home just as the commotion was over I guess and had to try and get my mother's spirits up after her guilty feelings. Hey, it's not her fault she's handicapped and can fall without beable to get back up on her own but she just keeps thinking; "If only I wasn't like this I wouldn't cause so much trouble for people". I talked with her for a little bit and then my grandmother decided to make up my mother's bed and needed me to do it. I leave my mother for only a minute and "Bang, OWE!" She had accidently left her electric wheelchair on and moved it while she reached for something and jammed her toes against something. I ran in, got that sorted out only to hear; "I think I broke my toes... don't tell Grammy" *Slams forehead against desk* Honestly, when I'm not around everything literally falls apart! Now my mother has several large bruises on her arms/ legs and her toes are now BLACK! She won't go to a doctor when she's supposed to. So it's no use trying to convince her to go and see one! AAAHH!!!!! *rants and then huffs in exhaustion* Okay, I'm done now.

I Got My AM Shipment in Today...

last modified: Sunday, October 09, 2005 (8:03:20 PM CST)

Yay! I haven't had enough time to go through all of the stuff yet becuase I've been out all day with my friends but so far it's really cool! I like the Saiyuki gengas even more in person becuase they're multi-layered and comes with timing sheets and episode numbers. It'll take me a while to scan the ones that'll add to the Saiyuki section but I'll do those as soon as I can. For now I have the one of Sanzo Tripping Gojyo redone in action sequence! Cool, it's nice to have a computer that actually does stuff you want it to. Now if I can just figure out how to create and save .gif files... I'll probably be adding the Kouryuu sketches soon. I've got a project other than attempting to clean my room again.

Thanks to klet, Cutiebunny, kira, and kaminari for your responses! Sorry to hear about your Xellos/ Garv cel Kami! I know it must've been hard for you!

Oops MKC part 2...

last modified: Saturday, October 08, 2005 (5:18:26 PM CST)

Oh yeah I forgot to mention. If ever you sell one of your favorite items on Ebay or anyother way be sure to mention if they ever want to sell it in the future to tell you ahead of time incase you can get it back. I saw one of my Slayers cels that I sold someone back on Ebay again and it was one that I REALLY liked/ miss too. That taught me that lesson.

More Keeps Coming...

last modified: Saturday, October 08, 2005 (5:14:44 PM CST)

NO, I see MORE wishlist items one on YJ and one on Ebay, not to mention a "really want" one on YJ again! It looks like my cel diet's gonna have to wait... maybe until after x-mas. GREAT my x-mas and birthday money are gonna go to my bills instead of saving for conventions or buying cels/ sketches with grrrr. Or I'm gonna have to sell more items than I thought. Which I'd rather spend my x-mas and b-day money than do that. Plus, there's an Escaflowne cel on Madarake's Big Auction I'm DROOLING over boy am I glad I have restraints in that area. I'm not much of a Van person but even I'm tempted on that one! Good luck on whoever's going for it!

Yup, I'm feeling better today. I'm sorry to hear that you're sick, too klet! Hopefully you'll get that research paper due in time! Thanks to Cutiebunny, kira, klet, Miss Z and of course Tex-chan for your support on my last entery!

Sick and Miserable...

last modified: Friday, October 07, 2005 (11:47:49 PM CST)

Yup, I'm sick like usual. I get sick alot for different reasons. This time it's the usual one that I fell nausecious (sp?) all over and can't even LOOK at food while suffering from a horrible migrain. I hade to come home from work early and to add to my misery I just realized that Achika cel I won on YJ isn't included on the items being shipped to me... becuase SMJ hasn't received it yet and sent me an invoice. So I HOPE it gets to them and me in one peice!

I slept so much that I had to get up and eat SOMETHING. So I just made a hamburger and have been on the internet for a little bit. I'm going to have to go back to bed soon. Yay.

By the way, you're comment Miss Z caused my eyes to bug out and me to cry; "Ouch!" I know how it feels to have to give up your favorite things for finances (which I'll have to be doing soon), it stings alot but hopefully it has a nice, safe home.

Got Shipping Notices,,,

last modified: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 (10:22:07 PM CST)

Yup, my Anime Museum and SMJ shipments are on their way to my house so I decided to jump the gun and move the cels in the Coming Soon that are in those shipments into the sections they belong. Oh yeah, I bought the Saiyuki Movie and finally realized there's a folded up poster inside... and I LOVE it let me tell you! It's the one of the four of them sitting on grass in very laid back poses. *drools*

Thanks to tex-chan, klet, kira, WC, Cutiebunny, and of course Leah for past comments that definately helped to cheer me up! I just LOVE that episode of Sanzo with the kitty and especially in that pic eventhough I haven't even seen that episode in person! I can't WAIT! Isn't it the cutest Saiyuki pic ever? BTW, I DO call that guy Kitsume and he bugs me to tell him what it means... but that would spoil my fun! I just want to make sure, Kitsume means; "Red Fox" in Japanese right? 'Cause that's what I mean to say. Not in the "You're a FOX!" way, but in the "Sly as a fox" and mostly all the tales/myths about foxes using their charms to try and trick people to get their own ways. Especially that one Myth (Japanese one I think) about the "Fox and the Hunter's Daughter"

Kharma Keeps Kicking My Butt part 2

last modified: Monday, October 03, 2005 (7:50:03 PM CST)

THIS time the damn kitsume told me that he was going to live in Florida or Scotland (yeah I laughed at that one in my head, too. Not that Scotland is a bad place to go too mind you but it seemed corny and I can't imagine him wanting to live in that country... all though the thought of him wearing a kelt is pretty funny.. teehee damn, too bad he didn't)

So two years pass and I have been on my witts end... especially within the last couple of weeks. Last Saturday I debated over wether or not I was going to get up early and go to the bank and Post Office before they closed. Then I got a jolt of importance and went there as fast as I could. I did and had enough time to stop in at the drug store right next door to pick up somethings I really needed. Then as I exited I looked up and there he was in his car waving at me.... I wanted to throw my stuff at him! Unfortunately or fortunately for him, his mother was with him inside the car so I fell for the "I'm so happy to see you routine" I can't seem to get myself out of when it comes to him. Apparently, he returned a while ago but assumed that I was long-gone by now (yeah, what happened to that?) and didn't bother to call my house or stop in at my work (hmm, is he trying to cover his own butt or was he serious I still can't tell). So he mentioned his birthday and a get together and calling me on Wed. let's see if Mr. Unreliable (oh, that's right he DOES know Jennifer (aka my sister; "Miss Unreliable") really will do what he says he's gonna this time. Probably not. Anyway, he left and I pointed up at the sky and said; "You son of a Bitch! Haha, very funny," (sarcastically and bitterly)

Which brought me to today. Then I HOPED that I could get my car started again and that whatever needed repairing WASN'T what my grandmother was saying. Thanks to Jennifer (er, I take back what I said about her... for now that is) and her fiance I got my car going again and her fiance determined that it was the started and would probably cost me around $200.00 to get it fixed at a good place. AAHHHH WHAT?! Okay, so I'm very relieved that I don't have to pay $600.00 but still... $200.00!! Why me? Why now? I was only kidding about that... really!

Kharma Keeps Kicking My Butt.. it HURTS!

last modified: Monday, October 03, 2005 (7:30:56 PM CST)

Yup that's right something ELSE happened. My car wouldn't start when I got out of work today. My grandmother forced an answer into my head that it was the timing belt and would cost $600.00 to replace. This time I suspect that funny thing called Kharma. To explain why I say this I need to break things down to the begining of what happened. Okay, so there are only two guys in my entire life so far that I have had deep feelings for. One of them has blond hair and is my childhood friend of whom I had been very close to when I was in Elementary School. I wasn't very good in groups with girls but for some reason I fit well in groups with boys especially if he was in them... he'd keep me out of trouble hehehe ^-^' I had this little; "too smart for my own good... there's nothing I can't say or do," attitude (I have the opposite problem nowadays, how did that happen?). He was just as smart as I was but he didn't act up at all... in fact he's always been very charming and generous when it comes to people and eventhough he's very smart, he's got a goofy and funny side to him which I appreciate very much. I suspect that's the reason why I'm especially fond of blond-haired guys (Uh, ignore that last one... no comments please)

THEN there's the red-headed Kitsume as I refer to him as. He's brash and sometimes cocky... he smiles warmly and even melts the coldest of hearts when he does but I know that smile only hides what troubles him. He constantly tries to fill the void of pain and emptiness in his heart by diving head first into situations... especially relationships. And BOY has he had some REAL doozies. He doesn't want to hurt me like he might've of other girls in his life and has told me that I am one of the only constant things in his life. So unfortunately for ME he pushes me away.

He also has a bad habit of taking off the minute situations or relationships get messy because he wants to avoid conflict. He'll disappear for months and even years without so much as a call or a postcard. So I stay wondering if he's okay and hoping that whereever he is; he's happy. These thoughts and the faith that I WILL see him again is what keeps me from hating him and eventually does bring us back together again. Also, as he keeps on doing this I get more and more fursterated and thus more and more confidence in myself. HOWEVER, whenever I have things planned (imagine Kaoru from RRK and the engagement ring episode) as far as what he would say or do and force visions of a life together; I get nasty remiders to stay focused on my life in front of me. Mainly, uncontrolable and unpredictable bad things happen as a sort of punishment I suppose or a test of patience. Not only that, but it turns out that he never says or does what I planned he would.

$500.00 vet bill now...

last modified: Friday, September 30, 2005 (11:54:07 PM CST)

an upgrade for the bill a downgrade for my bank account. My mother actually asked if my sister and I could pitch in which is almost unheard of coming from her. If it was up to me, I wouldn't let things keep going this way but I really have no say in anything in my family. This all means I really will have to sell things from my gallery. I really DON'T want to but I have to.

thank-you to MP, tex-chan,Cutiebunny, Leah and klet for your support. I really appreciate it!

Majpr Money Pitfalls...

last modified: Thursday, September 29, 2005 (8:09:47 PM CST)

due to recent Wishlist cel auctions on YJ, sales at Anime Museum, fancel commissions, a $110.00 visiting bill for the family dog and many credit card bills; I will be forced to sell some items and open my gallery to offers as soon as I receive my YJ winnings. I will be emptying out my Fruits Basket section completly (to replace it with Saiyuki), a Rem cel and some Slayers cels. In the meantime if anyone sees anything they've wanted that's not labelled ANFS I may consider them. I also will have to be on a cel purchasing diet for the next couple of months maybe even after December. I have no choice but to do it cold turkey unless there are cels SPECIFICALLY on my wishlist.

I'm nerved up right now becuase it took the dog collapsing after throwing up what he ate finally convinvced my mother to take him to a vet which should have happened WEEKS even MONTHS ago. She's a wreck so now I am. Thanks goes out to klet, Leah and tex-chan for their comments on the last weblog!

LLB Continuing...

last modified: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 (10:14:08 PM CST)

I leave the gosh (insert other word) damn, pump and start hearing the wind and birds VERY close and loudly. Is it my windows...? Nope, not those. Where the heck is that sound coming from... the passanger door! So I have to pull over in another parking lot, to get out of my car, slam the damn door shut, walk back around the car, get back inside, leave the parking lot and AGAIN head for home before I feel like ramming the car into something! Forget about Wallyworld that's the LAST place I want to go to when I feel like hunting down stupid people!

Then, there on the table sat a beautiful sight. A missing paycheck from Work 2 years ago that I had filed a missing action on; worth $211.00! Patience really DOES pay off! I head upstairs to my room and see a Rent Anime envelope with the next Saiyuki dvd to watch! I watched it, ate some chocolate, drooled at the new paycheck, got some screen caps off of a website for some of my upcoming Saiyuki sketches, and won another Saiyuki sketch.

Wow, Ying Yang... is going to drive me CRAZY if it keeps going like this.

By the way, thanks goes out to Tex-chan, klet Leah and SME!

Life's Little Balances...

last modified: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 (10:12:45 PM CST)

So yesterday I had a perfectly fine day at work and then plans to buy stuff at Wallyworld right after getting some gas. So I stopped at the usual gas station I go to becuase I also like to buy a fountain soda and pay inside.

I did my usual press o'da buttons on the gas pump then the guy on the speaker tells me that I have to pay inside FIRST. I only got gas about four weeks ago and this happened within those four weeks! Fine, whatever.. it doesn't matter to me I'll just get the soda and pay for the gas first. I go to fill the cup with ice... and it tips over, I caught it just as some little cubes escaped onto the floor. My arms were full with my work bag/purse so I couldn't hold onto both at the same time. Then I go to put soda into it.. and the same thing almost happens! I cursed and then finally left out the ice, held onto both my purse and cup at the same time as I filled the cup, then I go to put the cover on. It doesn't fit. No matter how hard I adjusted the damn thing, it wouldn't stay on longer that a second. What the friggn hell! I was begining to had enough of the stupid place so I said frig this I'll just go pay for the stuff.

I needed to use a ccard becuase I had NO money with me, so I handed him my card. He tells me; "Sorry I can't take ccards here, you have to pay it at the pump..." Me>> "What the hell are you talking about I've ALWAYS paid for the gas with my ccard in here! Since when is it too hard to swipe my ccard in that clunky register of yours!" Guy>> "Uh, since they took the ccard part out of the register about four weeks ago" Me>>*Grrr... better get out of here before I either think about blowing the gas pump up or want to strangle somebody!*

I managed to tear myself away from the store and as I walk to my car to start paying for the gas which was starting not to be worth all the trouble, I took a sip of the drink. It tasted like windex... not that I've DRUNK windex mind you but you know when you spray it and sometimes you taste it if you breathe through your mouth... well imagine that. I think one of my eyes was starting to twitch at that point and I probably had a few veins popping out so I knew going back into the store would only lead to a bad outcome, so I throw the cup into the garbage and sighed a deep, long, have to calm myself down, sigh. I made my way to the pump and put my ccard in... Invalid it has the galls to show me. Invalid! *You're the thing around here that's INVALID!* I think as I swipe it again... Not authorize. I KNOW I don't owe THAT much on the bill, so what the... oh, I put it the wrong way. D'oh! Grrr... let's try this again! Finally success! I paid for the gas, pumped the gas, got inside my car and started to make my way to freedom when another car comes ZOOMING right in front of me! Good thing I have fast reflexes and instincts or he would've hit me.. he was an old geezer too (no offense to the elderly out there)!

Cousin's Wedding..

last modified: Saturday, September 24, 2005 (11:28:11 PM CST)

SO I went to my cousin's wedding tonight. It was much different than the long, boring weddings I hate going to. They got married at a bar by a Justice of the Peace... which was my godfather. The ceremony was short but sweet and I brought my new digital camera along.

In large crowds, even among my family it takes me a while to socialize... I prefer small groups like 2-3 people to stand out in. However, food and damn songs like "Love Shack" forced me to get into it.

The table peices were AWESOME... clear vases with a Beta in each one! I fell in LOVE with the one at my table and when the time came to see who gets the tablepeice. Nobody else at my table wanted it but the wedding couple forced everyone to do a drawing for them. When I passed my name tag to my Unlce for him to place it in the hat... I whispered a little charm of luck and had a feeling that they would call my name... and guess what? That's right, I won the Beta! Yay, I got a free Beta and added him to the other two I already have in my room!

So all in all it wasn't such a bad wedding like I had expected. I received an invoice for the Sanzo rilezu so I revealed him on my Coming Soon Section as well as the Ahicka cel.

What a day yesterday/last night was...

last modified: Friday, September 23, 2005 (9:13:09 PM CST)

I received my e-mail confirmations about winning all of my auctions including the Slayers cel of Lina with white hair! I was sooo excited and happy when I saw this and when SMJ went back online alloying me to bid on one last goodie before I go on my cel diet for the next couple of months I DEFINATELY need to now becuase I just received the invoice for the Saiyuki sketches I ordered on Anime Museum and damn nearly had a heart attack! I didn't think it could come to THAT much! Ontop of my recent auctions and Anime Musuem's little announcement today... I'm starting to hurt already and I haven't even paid for things yet.

On a even downer note, I came home yesterday to a very somber mood of my family dog and how he was struggling really bad... I pretty much thought he might die the moment I saw him. So my mother has been so nerved up and very emotional about it. He seems to be doing a little bit better today but he's not in good shape at all.

Update on the latest Blog...

last modified: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 (9:18:21 PM CST)

finally just a minute ago I was able to check the closed auction section of SMJ eventhough my personal section can't be veiwed and from what I can tell and hope... I won the last auction, too! I'm so crossing my fingers there wasn't a last-minute thing that could've changed it before the SMJ stuff crashed! I am still sitting at the edge of my seat but I'm half as tense as I was last night so I can get some sleep tonight after my shower! Oh, I can't WAIT to see those confirmation e-mails to appear so that I know 100% for certain! I've gotta go before I get myself tensed up again! Thanks again to everyone for their support and an extra special thanks to Starfighter, klet and of course Tex... you guys (girls?) are the BEST!

More to Come...

last modified: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 (3:30:42 PM CST)

Thanks for the comments ealier everyone and thanks to Starfighter I found out that I probably won the Sanzo rilezu cel that was on YJ. I saw that cel in Tex-chan's Saiyuki Museum and fell in love with it. Short time after it appeared on YJ... destiny I tell ya! As for the last auction which is more of a shot in the dark that I'd actually win it I'll have to ask if someone could check out the end result of that one. It's auction; e49769687 of a cel from Slayers of Lina with white hair talking to Gourry... I have a particular fondness of that episode for a good reason and I've been REALLY wanting a cel of Lina with that white hair for a while. As I said before one appeared on YJ and went well over $200.00 which I couldn't and still can't afford right now so I PRAY that I won this one. It's even better because she's with Gourry! My dream wishlist cel of that is when Lina is laying down on the grass and Gourry gets all worried becuase of her hair... what? She has the right to change the color of her hair without dying it. All though it was sweet of Gourry to be worried about her so I guess it's okay.

Ah anyway, so I was biting my nails in nervousness last night about the Sanzo cel so I surfed to get my mind off of it and fell right into a Saiyuki Genga sale trap! Doh, I ended up splurging with money I pretty much don't have so now there are Saiyuki Gengas coming soon. I won a Saiyuki scroll on Ebay too (adds totals of these and the previous auctions won.... *faints*)

Uh, did I win it... or what?!

last modified: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 (8:29:26 PM CST)

So, I had to work this morning right as the third auction was ending. Then I come back to check and see if I received an e-mail saying congratulations because the last thing I knew I was the only one who had bid on it. But there was nothing....! So I quickly go to SMJ to see if I won it or not and their website isn't working or maybe it's my server/connection... the point is I don't know if I won it or not! I only have the auction number not the complete address to check it on Rinkya (I don't have an account there anyways) If so